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SUMMARY:Flickering Reality: Persona: Masks that Conceal\, Masks that Reveal
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTfvfb_3G4c\n\n\n\n\n\nFlickering Reality: Exploring Ideas in Film and Television \n\n\n\nPersona: Masks that Conceal\, Masks that Reveal \n\n\n\nwith Kevin Lu \n\n\n\nSunday May 2\, 20219:00 am PDT  |  12:00 pm EDT  |  6:00 pm CEST \n\n\n\nA monthly get-together to examine the thought-provoking\, the philosophical\, and the ones that take risks. \n\n\n\nIn this session\, we will use three films as our springboard to exploring Jung’s notion of the persona:  Wall Street (1987)\, The Mask (1994) and The Farewell (2019).  While each film highlights the potentially pathological relationship one can have with one’s personas\, they also convey the important role played by this archetypal imperative in personality development. As with all archetypes\, the persona is bipolar in nature and entering into a more integral relationship with its various qualities and characteristics is central to the project of individuation. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKevin Lu\, BA (Hons) (University of Toronto); MA (Heythrop College\, University of London); PhD (University of Essex)\, is a Senior Lecturer and Director of the MA Jungian and Post-Jungian Studies in the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies\, University of Essex. He is a former member of the Executive Committee of the International Association for Jungian Studies and a member of Adjunct Faculty at Pacifica Graduate Institute.  Kevin’s publications include articles and chapters on Jung’s relationship to the discipline of history\, Arnold J. Toynbee’s use of analytical psychology\, critical assessments of the theory of cultural complexes\, sibling relationships in the Chinese/Vietnamese Diaspora\, racial hybridity\, and Jungian perspectives on graphic novels and their adaptation to film. \n\n\n\nThis series is free and open to everyone!\n\n\n\nJoin our Zoom meeting via the following link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88085841173 \n\n\n\nIf you would like to participate\, have any questions or need any help just contact Eleanor Peat: eleanor@paricenter.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat do Films and Television say about our world? What ideas can be examined through the moving image? From Science Fiction\, to Comedy\, Drama and Documentaries\, the Seventh Art has been a mirror of our society\, from the stories they portray to the method in which they’ve been produced\, a mirror that is sometimes difficult to understand. \n\n\n\nThis monthly series will reveal the message behind different Films and TV Series\, exploring the themes through the lens of physics\, psychology\, philosophy and sociology. Each session will have a guest speaker who will analyse these themes\, which will then be discussed with our community\, and lead us to a better understanding of film and reveal the deeper truths of our world.
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SUMMARY:Ancient Wisdom Transforming Tomorrow
DESCRIPTION:Ancient Wisdom Transforming Tomorrow \n\n\n\n4-part series: Saturday May 8\, 15\, 22\, 299:00am PDT  |  12:00pm EDT  |  5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST  |   6:00pm SAST \n\n\n\nEach session is 2.5 hours \n\n\n\nwith Gavin Andersson\, Rutendo Ngara and Godelieve Spaasand special guests Ela Manga and Keith Mparana \n\n\n\nThis programme features meditation\, drawing\, music\, stories\, dialogues and experiences and is limited to 20 active participants. \n\n\n\nWe find ourselves in a world in crisis. While theories abound\, to some humanity is at the edge of the apocalypse. We are at a time of reckoning\, a time of turning. We are both actors and spectators in the time foretold by ancient prophecy. \n\n\n\nThere has been no greater symbol of this in recent history than the global health emergency due to Covid-19. As a consequence of the virus\, borders have been closed\, millions of sources of livelihood have been lost\, systems have been stifled\, economies have suffered\, and all the ills of the world have been accentuated. At the peak of the pandemic\, the world was stopped in its tracks and activity—as we knew it—and was locked down. Some point out that this may just be the first such pandemic\, and that it is merely a harbinger of the crises to come with climate change. \n\n\n\nAt this watershed moment humanity is asked to re-think\, re-imagine\, re-define\, re-act\, re-store\, re-generate and re-new. \n\n\n\nCan the current Western economic thinking solve everything? What lessons can we learn from Ancient Wisdom? \n\n\n\nThis series of dialogues aims to bring to light concepts from African Indigenous Knowledge Systems as catalysts for reimagining how to approach issues in our current reality in an interrelated and unbounded way. \n\n\n\nBy enlarging the space\, we can move beyond the existing dominant paradigms and rethink the fictions that shape the modern world. We explore four different Indigenous principles\, allowing other ways of knowing to expand our ways of doing—our activity. We create a container for unbounded organising in a time of transition. We traverse the bridge between remembering and imagining and paint the world as we would wish it to become. \n\n\n\nEach session addresses one principle: \n\n\n\nUbuntu (Southern Africa)Ubuntu is the principle of interrelatedness\, interconnectedness and interdependence.  It asserts that: ‘A person is a person through other persons. I am because you are. You are because we are. We are because it is. It is because All that is is.’ This is the root of identity. \n\n\n\nSankofa (West Africa)Sankofa tells us to ‘go back and fetch it.’ It is a concept of ‘historical recovery\,’ moving us to reflect on and reclaim Indigenous cultural ideas and principles in order to advance towards a co-created future. \n\n\n\nKemetic Tree of Life (Ancient Egypt)The Tree of Life tracks the process of creation from the Void to All That Is. It is a cosmological principle describing the ancient wisdom about the nature of the cosmos: from the unmanifest to the manifest\, the infinite to finite. \n\n\n\nAncestors (throughout)African spirituality holds that there is no separation between the living\, those who have walked before and those who are to come. Death is a complementary of life and the beginning of the communication between the visible and the invisible worlds. \n\n\n\nHow do we look back to move forward\, what new insights seek to emerge and what transformative activity fractals can we manifest? \n\n\n\nPre-readingGavin Andersson (2021) ‘Unbounded Organising’ Pari Perspectives\, Issue 7\, ‘The Common Good’ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGavin Andersson\, PhD\, is a development practitioner and activity theorist whose life work has focused on strengthening community organisation\, and leadership development within civil society. \n\n\n\nGavin was founder and co-ordinator of CORDE\, which worked with farmer groups and community enterprises in Botswana. He later consulted in organisational development across southern Africa and in the Caribbean. Returning to South Africa at the inception of democracy he led a development advocacy organization and worked in the fields of corporate social responsibility\, civil accountability\, and leadership development. Gavin has helped to develop methodologies for citizen-based monitoring of government programmes. \n\n\n\nGavin is an executive coach\, senior fellow of the Chair for Social Change at the University of Johannesburg and was a distinguished fellow of the Chair in Development Education housed at the University of South Africa UNISA. He is Adjunct Professor at the Graduate School of Business of the University of Cape Town where he hosts critical conversations on Macroeconomics\, Ethics and Organizing. Gavin lives with three of his five children\, is passionate about agroecology\, and follows African spirituality. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRutendo Ngara is an African Indigenous Knowledge Systems practitioner and transdisciplinary researcher whose professional interests have spanned from clinical engineering\, healthcare technology management\, socio-economic development\, mathematics\, leadership and fashion design; to the interface between science\, culture\, cosmology and paradigms of healing. With a passion for integrating art\, science and spirituality towards healing of the Collective and restoration of the Whole\, she is a spiritual coach\, priestess and counsellor\, who engages several modes of healing. She consults in workshop facilitation in areas such as leadership\, personal development\, health and wellness. Rutendo is a co-founder of Ancient Wisdom Africa\, a forum that seeks to gather knowledges and voices of Ancient Wisdom and see how these can illuminate the present; as well as a member of the Assegaia Alliance—a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary group of experts dedicated to the protection of the Earth’s Sacred Natural Sites. She serves on a number of boards\, advisory and convening committees\, including the Credo Mutwa Foundation\, the South African Wushu Federation\, Earthrise Collective and Umphakatsi Peace Ecovillage. Rutendo is a practitioner of a number of physical disciplines\, including Wushu/Kung Fu/Tai Ji for which she has represented South Africa as an international silver medallist. She holds a BSc in Electrical Engineering\, an MSc in Medicine in Biomedical Engineering\, and is pursuing a doctorate in Philosophy of Education. The quest for harmony\, co- existence and complimentarity underpins her endeavours. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGodelieve Spaas is a professor of Sustainable Strategy and Innovation at Avans University of Applied Science in the Netherlands. She is a researcher and also creates and makes performances and podcasts about new ways of entrepreneurial organizing where ecology\, society\, and the economy all benefit from and interact seamlessly with each other. Her aim is to increase diversity in organizational and entrepreneurial models and realities with a view to the development of a fairer\, more sustainable and robust entrepreneurial space. She combines art\, science\, entrepreneurial practices and indigenous knowledge. \n\n\n\nGodelieve also creates new businesses that are collaborative\, inclusive and work in harmony with nature. She is associate Director of the Pari Center and a regular guest in Pari\, a place where she writes\, participates in dialogues\, and follows and gives courses. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Ela Manga is an integrative medical doctor with an ancient vision for the future. Amongst the gifts she offers\, she is a specialist in energy management\, author and speaker who uses Breathwork as a tool for self-empowerment\, healing and transformation. For those who have had the privilege of experiencing the transformative power of the breath under her facilitation\, it was a source of inspiration and expiration. Last year she ran a podcast series called ‘Threads of Healing\,’ where she expanded the notion of healing through different voices and wove it back together into a tapestry of beauty. Apart from her medical practice\, she is the Founder of Breathwork Africa. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKeith Mparana is an avid student of African-based systems of knowledge that he translates into artwork through studying the thought processes that are depicted in ancient cosmologies.
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SUMMARY:Hope and Delusion
DESCRIPTION:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogTF4n-mRXM\n\n\n\n\n\nHope and Delusion: Critical Storytelling for Difficult Times \n\n\n\nwith Robert Norris \n\n\n\nSunday May 169:00am PDT  | 12:00pm EDT  | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST \n\n\n\nWhen we realise just how much hangs on our attitudes towards the various forms of crisis we are exposed to\, we may come to see what our work really is. Hope has a curious story to tell. It reminds us of the wealth we carry within us\, but also of how easily we are persuaded to give it all up. This talk attempts to string together disparate stories relating to\, but not necessarily about\, hope\, and aims specifically to raise more questions than it answers. Accompanying the talk there will be breakout and plenary sessions in which participants will be able to articulate their thoughts and responses. \n\n\n\nOn Sunday May 16\, Robert will open our monthly Community Call with a presentation and followed by discussion and Q&A. \n\n\n\nTHIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO EVERYONE!\n\n\n\nJoin our Zoom meeting via the following link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84842167052 \n\n\n\nIf you would like to participate\, have any questions or need any help just contact Eleanor Peat: eleanor@paricenter.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhen asked once to provide a blurb for a book on the philosophy of language\, the question of how to describe Robert professionally had to be addressed. It was decided to describe him as an independent researcher\, and this is more or less how Robert has viewed himself ever since. Robert teaches English as a foreign language\, but his interests and experience are wide-ranging. Born to British parents in Modena\, Italy\, he studied Classics at school\, English at Aberdeen University and General Linguistics and Comparative Philology at the University of Oxford. He has travelled and worked in various parts of Europe\, the Middle East\, the Far East\, Southeast Asia\, Australasia and the United States. In 2014\, he completed a Permaculture Design Course in Vang Vieng\, Laos\, and holds a second degree black belt in the art of aikido. He is indebted to many teachers in the fields of aikido and meditation\, especially Vipassana meditation\, and in 2018 completed a Mindfulness Teacher Training Course at the Mangalam Meditation Centre in Germany. He now lives with his beloved wife in Zürich\, Switzerland\, where he plans to embark on training as a Jungian Analyst at the International School for Analytical Psychologists.
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